Perpetual monthly calendar



(No Model.)

J. GUIDINGER. PERPETUAL MONTHLY CALENDAR.

Patented June '7, 1892.

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JOSEPH GUIDINGER, OF LOS ANGELES, OALIFORNIA.

PERPETUAL MONTHLY CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,263, dated June '7, 1892.

Application filed October 27, 1891. Serial No. 409,952. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH GUIDINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Perpetual Monthly Calendar, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a neat simple calendar which can be used as an attractive advertising medium which will be preserved for a longer time than is ordinarily the case with calendars; also, to provide a calendar which can be constructed at veryslight expense and which will serve as a convenient calendar for a long period of years.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 is a plain front view of my newlyinvented calendar. Fig. 2 is a vertical midsection of the same on line 00 m. Fig. 3 is a view of the day-indicating strip, showing the arrangement of the numerals thereon. Fig.

4 shows the main card with the several day,

month, and year indicating strips removed. My improved calendar embraces the combination of the peculiarlyformed card A, provided with day, month, and year strip holding slits 'i @m m, and Z Z and with the day-initials b (the days may be indicated byabbreviations or by their names in full, if desired) arranged above the space a between the slits i i, which space is covered by the day-indicating strip D when said strip is in proper place, the year and month indicating strips 13 O, and the dayindicating strip D provided with the numerals of the month arranged in duplicate, except the numerals 7 5, ,77 and 9,71 each'of which appears but once, and also provided with the lateral tags or tabs 25, extending, respectively, beyond the outer sides or edges of the two series of numerals.

My invention comprises the combination herein set forth of the card A, provided with the day-indicatin g initials b,arranged in a row, and with the day-indicating-strip slits i '5, arranged to form a sight-space a for the day-indicating strip D correspondingin width to the length of the row I) of the initials, and such day-indicating strip D provided with aseries c of the calendar-numbers from 1 to 31, inclusive, arranged in calendar form-i. a, in

columns arranged in series of sevens-the first ranged horizontally to correspondto the columns of numerals when the day-indicating strip D is in place over the sight-space a. The sight-space a, covered by the day-indicating strip, is determined by two incisions it, made in the card A at a distance apart equal to the width of seven columns. The card Ais preferably thick, so that it may be split, and in its preferred form it is partially divided by an incision beneath the row of day-initials band parallel therewith at the top of the space a, and is split upward from such incision to form a recess between its main body and the daystrip-protecting flap thus formed to receive the upper edge of the day-strip, whereby when such edge is seated in such recess the flap protects the upper edge of the day-strip and prevents it from being rumpled down by a stroke from above.

The strip B is provided with numerals indicating the several years the calendar is in tended to embrace and is inserted through the twoincisionsz'i,asshown. Thisisnotclaimed to be new, however. The strip 0 is provided with the names of the months and is passed through the incisions m min the manner common to calendars of this class. The several strips are preferably made of cloth, but may be made of any suitable material.

In practice the day-strip D is set with the numeral l under the initial of the day of the week the first of the month occurs. This sets the calendar accurately for the whole month. In setting the strip D it is moved back and forth by means of the tabs or tags t, whichalso serve to hold the strip D in place.

The calendar is made at very small expense and with a minimum amount of material, printing, and labor.

Now, having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

day-indicating strip D correspondingin width to the length of the row I) of initials, and such day-indicating strip D provided with a series of the calendar-numbers from 1 to 31, inclusive, arranged in calendar form, the first column of which series consists of the num- H 1,) (i S, 15,77 6 22,77 C 297 a supplemental series (1 of numbers from to 31, inclusive, except the numbers 15, 22, and 29, said supplemental series being arranged at thelett of the main series,with its top row 9 in line with the second row h of the main or complete series 0.

2. The combination of the card A, provided with the day-initials in a row and with the day-indicating-strip slits Marranged to form a sight-space Cb for the day-indicating strip D corresponding in width to the length of the row b of initials, and such day-indicating strip D provided with aseries of the calendar-numbers from 1 to 31, inclusive,'arrangetl in calendar form, the first co umn of which series consists of the numbers 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29, and a supplemental series at of numbers cept the numbers 8, 15, 22, and 29, said supplemental series being arranged at the left of the main series, with its top row g in line with the second row h of the main or complete series 0, and the lateral tabs t, eX- tending, respectively, beyond the outer edges of the two series of numerals.

3. In a calendar of the class described, the combination of the thick card A, partially divided by an incision beneath the row of dayinitials b and parallel therewith at the top of the space a and split upward from such incis ion to form a recess between the main body and the day strip protecting flap 76 thus formed, and the day-strip arranged, substantially as set forth, with its upper edgebetween such day-strip-protecting flap and the main body of the card A.

JOSEPH GUIDINGER.

Witnesses: 7

JAMES R. TOWNSEND, F. M. TOWNSEND.

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